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Biotech Playing Catchup - New GMO Purple Tomato Same Benefits as Old Non-GMO Purple Tomato
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, food, garden, home, genetic engineering, GMOs, health, humans, world )

Kathy
- 20 hours ago - eatdrinkbetter.com
Scientists in England developed a genetically modified purple tomato with higher antioxidant levels than the average red supermarket tomato. They hope to have it on the market in three years. Meanwhile, a few years ago, scientists in Oregon developed a-->
10 Most Absurd Sex Tips From the Christian Right
Society & Culture  (tags: Evangelical Christians, prudery, stupidity, sexism, Pat Robertson, Michelle Duggar, Focus on the Family, Juli Slattery )

Lynn
- 20 hours ago - alternet.org
Modern conservatives can't stop talking about sex. And what they say opens a window into the strange, sexist worldview of patriarchal religion.
* TAKE ACTION* ~ Game-Changing Opportunity For Liberty
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: ameicans, drones, government military, Obama, petition )

Kit
- 17 minutes ago - aclu.org
President Obama announced he will continue drone strikes. Act now to tell him to stop this unlawful killing program and its attacks on justice, liberty and democracy.
Oklahoma Tornado Health Risks May Lie In The Rubble
Society & Culture  (tags: health, tornadoes in Oklahama, news, environment, safety, usa )

Cal
- 2 hours ago - huffingtonpost.com
In addition to rusty nails, shattered glass, falling debris and loose wires, hazards such as cancer-causing asbestos and neurotoxic lead can be stirred up by the violent winds and by recovery efforts themselves. Such risks may raise the toll of death and
Indigenous Groups Protest Hydropower Congress as Controversy Hits Meeting in Malaysia
Environment  (tags: energy, native rights, politics, world, protection, environment, ecosystems, destruction, nature, humans )

Cal
- 2 hours ago - news.mongabay.com
The opening of the International Hydropower Association World Congress in the Malaysian state of Sarawak was marred today by indigenous protests and controversy after a local indigenous leader was barred from attending a pre-conference workshop
Press Release: Suit to Uncover Political Deals Behind Gray Wolf Delisting
Animals  (tags: law, ethics, abuse, crime, humans, investigation, wildanimals, Wolves, wildlife, animalcruelty, suffering, killing, death, conservation, animalrights )

Michael
- 19 hours ago - mexicanwolves.org
Very intersting. documents earlier uncovered by PEER show eligible habitat for Mexican wolves severely limited by related series of political federal-state deals. Feds trading off theoretical protections for Mexican wolves at the expense of gray wolves
How Racism Turned An Interracial Family's Trip to Walmart Into a Kidnapping Investigation | Alternet
Society & Culture  (tags: racism, bigotry, Walmart, family, society, culture, rights, freedoms )

Kevin
- 19 hours ago - alternet.org
"'They don't fit' is the phrase that apparently prompted concern."
America's Corrupt Justice System: Federal Private Prison Populations Grew By 784% in 10 Year Span
Society & Culture  (tags: prisons, private, costs, capitalism, politics, society )

Lynn
- 19 hours ago - alternet.org
From 1999-2010, the total U.S. prison population rose 18 percent, ... However, total private prison populations exploded fivefold during this same time period, with federal private prison populations rising by 784 percent ...
America's 10 Worst Prisons: ADX
Society & Culture  (tags: usa, prisons, solitary confinement, private prisons, death row, society, politics )

Lynn
- 18 hours ago - motherjones.com
"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." So goes the old saying. Yet conditions in some American facilities are so obscene that they amount to a form of extrajudicial punishment.
Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter C
Society & Culture  (tags: government, health, rights, freedoms, law, safety )

Kevin
- 19 hours ago - alternet.org
"The deceased, who was fighting a traffic ticket, suffered from asthma -- but deputies accused her of faking, suit filed in court argues."
 
 
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